About ngpaas.eu
A small independent editorial team writing about app platforms, European cloud and cloud-native engineering. Here is how the site is made, how it earns money, and what to do when we are wrong.
What we publish
Explanations and comparisons for developers, small teams and the people who sign off their hosting bills: what a platform as a service does, how hosted platforms and self-hosted alternatives compare, which European cloud providers exist and what they offer, what sovereign cloud and GDPR-compliant hosting really require, and the cloud-native and edge basics underneath. Everything appears in English and German.
This domain
Until 2019 this address was used by a publicly funded European research project on cloud platforms for 5G networks; that project has ended, and this site has no connection to it, to its consortium or to any of its former partners.
How we work
- Sources first. Providers' own documentation, price lists, terms and data processing agreements, official guidance from data protection authorities and the specifications of open-source projects. Where we describe common practice rather than a documented fact, we say so.
- Dated facts. Prices, free tiers and regions change often. Comparisons carry the month they were checked.
- Reviews are editorial assessments. We compare services on documented criteria: deployment model, regions and data location, pricing model, lock-in and exit options, support and compliance documents. We do not publish invented benchmarks or star ratings.
- No legal advice. Our pages on GDPR and sovereign cloud are orientation, not legal advice. For a binding assessment, talk to your data protection officer or a lawyer.
- Corrections. Substantiated errors get fixed. Significant changes are noted on the page.
How the site is funded
ngpaas.eu is a commercial publication. It is funded by advertising and by partner links to some of the providers we describe. If you sign up after following a partner link, we may receive a commission; the price is the same for you either way. Partner links are marked.
No provider pays for a mention, a position or a verdict, and no provider sees an article before it is published. Where an open-source tool or a provider without a partner programme is the better choice, we say so.
Who writes this
The site is written and edited by a small team rather than by named individual authors, and we do not attach personal bylines or invented credentials to the pages. Editorial responsibility sits with the operator named in the imprint.
Tell us we are wrong
If a price, a feature or a region listed here is out of date, we want to know. The fastest route is [email protected] or thecontact form. Please include the page address.